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        I'm a <span class="highlight">Web Architect</span> based out in India.<br/> I provide end to end solutions &amp; develop <span class="highlight">Engaging Websites</span>.
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            <h3 class="side-title">Overall Skills</h3>
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                <li class="clearfix"><h4>Web/UX Development</h4> <span class="rating rate-3"></span></li>
                <li class="clearfix"><h4>Web/UI Development</h4> <span class="rating rate-5"></span></li>
                <li class="clearfix"><h4>Responsive Design</h4> <span class="rating rate-4"></span></li>
                <li class="clearfix"><h4>MVC Architecture</h4> <span class="rating rate-4_5"></span></li>
                <li class="clearfix"><h4>Page Load Optimization</h4> <span class="rating rate-5"></span></li>
                <li class="clearfix"><h4>Search Engine Optimization</h4> <span class="rating rate-3"></span></li>
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            <h3 class="side-title">Programming Skills</h3>
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                <li class="clearfix"><h4>XHTML, HTML5</h4> <span class="rating rate-4"></span></li>
                <li class="clearfix"><h4>CSS2, CSS3</h4> <span class="rating rate-4"></span></li>
                <li class="clearfix"><h4>jQuery, Ajax, JSON</h4> <span class="rating rate-4_5"></span></li>
                <li class="clearfix"><h4>Bootstrap (Twitter)</h4> <span class="rating rate-3_5"></span></li>
                <li class="clearfix"><h4>Foundation (Zurb)</h4> <span class="rating rate-4"></span></li>
                <li class="clearfix"><h4>AngularJS</h4> <span class="rating rate-3"></span></li>
                <li class="clearfix"><h4>Node.js, RequireJS</h4> <span class="rating rate-2"></span></li>
                <li class="clearfix"><h4>PHP</h4> <span class="rating rate-3"></span></li>
                <li class="clearfix"><h4>HAML</h4> <span class="rating rate-5"></span></li>
                <li class="clearfix"><h4>MySQL</h4> <span class="rating rate-3"></span></li>
                <li class="clearfix"><h4>Java, .NET</h4> <span class="rating rate-2"></span></li>
                <li class="clearfix"><h4>Mootools</h4> <span class="rating rate-3"></span></li>
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            <h3 class="side-title">Tools / Frameworks</h3>
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                <li class="clearfix"><h4>Kohana</h4> <span class="rating rate-5"></span></li>
                <li class="clearfix"><h4>Drupal 6 &amp; 7</h4> <span class="rating rate-3_5"></span></li>
                <li class="clearfix"><h4>Adobe Omniture</h4> <span class="rating rate-4"></span></li>
                <li class="clearfix"><h4>Google Analytics</h4> <span class="rating rate-2_5"></span></li>
                <li class="clearfix"><h4>Git, SVN</h4> <span class="rating rate-4"></span></li>
                <li class="clearfix"><h4>Photoshop</h4> <span class="rating rate-2_5"></span></li>
                <li class="clearfix"><h4>YUI Compressor</h4> <span class="rating rate-3"></span></li>
                <li class="clearfix"><h4>Vignette 6 &amp; 7</h4> <span class="rating rate-2"></span></li>
                <li class="clearfix"><h4>Dev tools for Firefox, IE, Chrome</h4> <span class="rating rate-4"></span></li>
                <li class="clearfix"><h4>Joomla</h4> <span class="rating rate-3"></span></li>
                <li class="clearfix"><h4>Opencart</h4> <span class="rating rate-4"></span></li>
                <li class="clearfix"><h4>Wordpress</h4> <span class="rating rate-2_5"></span></li>
                <li class="clearfix"><h4>Trac, Jira, Splunk></h4> <span class="rating rate-4"></span></li>
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            <h3 class="side-title">Soft Skills</h3>
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                <li class="clearfix"><h4 class="full-width">Self-directed &amp; Passionate</h4></li>
                <li class="clearfix"><h4 class="full-width">Motivates stakeholders to align business strategy with end user needs</h4></li>
                <li class="clearfix"><h4 class="full-width">Intuitive team builder adept at identifying critical needs and ideal candidates</h4></li>
                <li class="clearfix"><h4 class="full-width">Leadership skills, Integrity</h4></li>
                <li class="clearfix"><h4 class="full-width">Eagerly believe in Constructive Feedback Model</h4></li>
                <li class="clearfix"><h4 class="full-width">Has thin layer b/w my Technical &amp; Management skills</h4></li>
                <li class="clearfix"><h4 class="full-width">Good sense of humor</h4></li>
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        <h3 class="side-title">Summary</h3>
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                I am a dynamic and creative web architect with <strong>7+ Years</strong> experience of working on international brands, working in a fast paced collaborative environment. I am a seasoned UX Strategist / UI Architect with a passion for creating interfaces using best practices, intuitive and cohesive design with the end-user experience as a focus.  I have worked on building &amp; maintaining many custom (in-house) applications for iVillage (NBCUniversal) including User management, Ads &amp; Newsletter Management and Performance tools. I can follow both approaches Graceful Degradation as well as Progressive Enhancement for Web Development. I have a strong technical knowledge of Page Load Optimization &amp; Cross-Browser issues.</p>
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        <h3 class="side-title">Education / Trainings</h3>
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            <li>(2004-2007) MCA - Masters in Computer Applications (GPA: 3.5)</li>
            <li>(2001-2004) Bachelor of Science, Computer Science (GPA: 3.0)</li>
            <li>(1999-2001) Senior Secondary Education, Science (GPA: 3.0)</li>
            <li>Adobe Omniture training from an Adobe instructor while working in New York, USA</li>
            <li>First Time Managers training in HCL that includes People Management, Work Management and Customer Management.</li>
            <li>Employee Passion Indicative Count (EPIC) certificate during job in HCL Technologies Ltd.</li>
            <li>CP (Complexity Point) Estimation certification during job in HCL Technologies Ltd.</li>
            <li>Sun Certified Java Professional (SCJP 1.5)</li>
            <li>.Net certification</li>
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        <h3 class="side-title">Career Profile</h3>
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            <li>NBCUniversal (<i>Jul 2012 till date</i>) as <strong>Frontend Architect</strong></li>
            <li>HCL Technologies Ltd. (<i>Nov 2011 to Jul 2012</i>) as <strong>Lead Engineer &amp; Offshore Lead</strong></li>
            <li>HCL America Inc. (<i>Nov 2009 to Nov 2011</i>) as <strong>Lead Engineer (Web Developer) on L1 Visa</strong></li>
            <li>HCL Technologies Ltd. (<i>Jul 2007 to Nov 2009</i>) as <strong>Software Engineer</strong></li>
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        <h3 class="side-title">Certificates</h3>
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            <li>Best Project of the Year 2007-2008 (By HCL Technologies Ltd.)</li>
            <li>Extraordinary employee award for continuous three years (2008 - 2010).</li>
            <li>Youth Leadership Camp Award (2004-2005)</li>
            <li>Winning in Kshitij Technical competition (2004 and 2005)</li>
            <li>Vice President of Science Association during Graduations</li>
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        <h3 class="side-title">Work Experience</h3>
        <h4>iVillage.com Development, Maintenance &amp; Support</h4>
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            <li>Managing Frontend team to get the work done assigned by business</li>
            <li>Having daily meeting with tech team so as to track the progress of tasks and to address any issues/concerns</li>
            <li>Participating in requirement meetings so as to discuss the upcoming projects as well as status tracking of ongoing projects</li>
            <li>Having weekly Sprint planning meeting and determining the work that needs to completed in coming Sprint</li>
            <li>Working on high revenue generating projects for iVillage and making sure that those projects gets completed on time with proper testing</li>
            <li>Coordinating with Quality Analysis team to get all the tickets tested for ongoing sprint and address any issues/concerns</li>
            <li>Support the weekly releases &amp; address blockers right away for smooth release</li>
            <li>Integrating the iVillage.com website with Social Networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest etc. and Third Party APIs like Newsvine, Strongmail, Gigya, Badgeville, Chartbeat, Sailthru etc.</li>
            <li>Integrating DoubleClick Ads to the website &amp; maintaining smooth flow of ads</li>
            <li>Creating very flexible and SEO slideshows giving client-side experience so that user think that whole gallery is sitting on his/her browser (even for a gallery with 200+ slides). Code was supporting data pull in chunks via Ajax.</li>
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        <h4>Master Page Services (MPS)</h4>
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            <li>Implementing the overall architecture of MPS system including which framework to use, how to handle caching, how to get the transactions processed in real time.</li>
            <li>Managing the team of developers working on the actual code implementation.</li>
            <li>Scrum meetings to get and process the requests from business as well as track the project progress.</li>
            <li>Helping other iVillage properties for integrating new MPS version to their sites.</li>
            <li>Coordinating with Ad Serving team for smooth transition to newer MPS.</li>
            <li>Integrating Omniture (Adobe product for Site Analytics) with iVillage site for site traffic analytics collection.</li>
            <li>Technical support for production cut over.</li>
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        <h4>ARWEN</h4>
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            <li>Expert knowledge of how DB tables are integrated &amp; coordinating with each other</li>
            <li>How properties using ARWEN request data and kind of response they expect.</li>
            <li>Extensive knowledge of Doctrine, REST APIs and HAML markup language</li>
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        <h4>Angmar</h4>
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            <li>How funnels work and being manipulated to server according newsletters to the newsletter sending tool.</li>
            <li>How to effectively pass the business rule updates from Angmar to ARWEN without impacting the live site performance because same ARWEN is serving live site as well.</li>
            <li>Handling Solr so as to index the data properly and a optimistic usage of facets so as to better search the ARWEN data</li>
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        <h4>Data Syncer/Merger</h4>
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            <li>How ARWEN and Strongmail DBs are mapped.</li>
            <li>How to build/run the merge scripts in a way that they don’t mess with the live site’s performance because sometime these scripts may update up to million records.</li>
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        <h4>Forums</h4>
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            <li>Interacting with client on daily basis for work assignments and tracking.</li>
            <li>Developing Base Theme in Drupal 7 for iVillage website and also created a sub theme that can be replaced by any other theme in case website renovation is required in future.</li>
            <li>Working on many custom modules and widgets using jQuery/CSS/HTML and made those cross-browser consistent</li>
            <li>Load/Speed Optimization by minifying and compressing all JavaScript and CSS and creating a CSS Sprite of the skin which reduced http requests from 40 to 3.</li>
            <li>Created custom plugins to replace some bloated/limited jQuery UI plugins</li>
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        <h4>Edit for Editors</h4>
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            <li>This tool is built on Drupal 6 stack and is being used by iVillage editors to create, manage and publish content to the website. We have created many content types for this tool that makes life of editors easy.</li>
            <li><strong>Solution Environment:</strong> Drupal6, ARWEN, PHP, jQuery, AJAX, MySQL, Varnish</li>
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        <h4>YourTotalhealth Migration &amp; Support</h4>
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            <li>Doing requirement gathering and analysis.</li>
            <li>Creating base theme in Vignette Application Portal 7.4 using CSS/HTML</li>
            <li>Designing 30+ Widgets based out of Vignette platform</li>
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        <h4>MOMTourage Support</h4>
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            <li><strong>Solution Environment:</strong> JavaScript/jQuery, CSS, HTML, Vignette Templates, VCM7.5, Java/J2EE, JSP/Servlets, Weblogic 9.2, Oracle 10g</li>
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        <h3 class="side-title">Personal Details</h3>
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            <li><strong>Email:</strong> <a href="mailto:self@vikeshmittal.com">self@vikeshmittal.com</a></li>
            <li><strong>Date of Birth:</strong> 24th July 1984</li>
            <li><strong>Sex:</strong> Male</li>
            <li><strong>Nationality:</strong> Indian</li>
            <li><strong>Martial Status:</strong> Married</li>
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